[2][3] In 1911 she began subscribing to The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review, a radical periodical edited by Dora Marsden and Mary Gawthorpe.

Weaver was convinced of his genius and started to support him, first by serialising A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in The Egoist in 1914.

Joyce's Ulysses was then serialised in The Egoist, but, because of its controversial content, it was rejected by all the printers approached by Weaver, and she arranged for it to be printed abroad.

Weaver continued to give considerable support to Joyce and his family (approaching a million pounds in 2019 money[4]), but following her reservations about his work that was to become Finnegans Wake, their relationship became strained and then virtually broken.

She died at her home near Saffron Walden in 1961, aged 85, leaving her collection of literary material to the British Library and to the National Book League.